<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48328]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If you were not going to upset the whole flow of your deal, you choose somewhere nearby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be quotable than to be honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be quotable than to be honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady  A recitative from Tancredi, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady  A recitative from Tancredi,   And something from "Palpiti!"    Sing forte when first you begin it,     Piano the very next minute,      They'll cry "What expression there's in it!"       Don't sing English ballads to me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manfred: Diego, spit that out. You don't know where it's been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manfred: Diego, spit that out. You don't know where it's been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every indivdual, in all her magnificent diversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30078]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acri fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acri fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green;  But as the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43375]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green;  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives   Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--    Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.     . . . .      But by and by, when the flowers grow few       And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--        Out she comes in her matron grace         With the purple myriads of her race;          Full of plenty from root to crown,           Showering plenty her feet adown.            While far over head hang gorgeously             Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,              For the best grows highest, always highest,               Upon the mulberry-tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2765]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47106]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44617]]></link><description><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46845]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel reluctant to come out in open opposition to anything that calls itself by the same name, or uses words like "God" and "Christ"; even Christians who in practice dislike superstition as much as I do still often treat it as a minor aberration to be hushed up rather than a radical perversion to be denounced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wounded spirit who can bear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wounded spirit who can bear?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?" Oh that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27961]]></link><description><![CDATA["You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?" Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night -- I changed the lock!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24003]]></link><description><![CDATA[And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  Life is at its noblest and its best when our effort cooperates with God's grace to produce the necessary loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, I did not attend a single meeting at the United Nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40215]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, I did not attend a single meeting at the United Nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;  But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;  But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.   And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2327]]></link><description><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without businesse debauchery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without businesse debauchery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would tell you that I think it was very loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would tell you that I think it was very loose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21923]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are sometimes the dupes of their own cleverness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are sometimes the dupes of their own cleverness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect  To our own prodigal excess   Of too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect  To our own prodigal excess   Of too familiar happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm good at reading people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm good at reading people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Austrian army awfully arrayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57124]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Austrian army awfully arrayed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harp not on that string, madam; that is past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20422]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4202</guid></item></channel></rss>